St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1887-01-13
Ghe Taleduniam.
vERMoNTERs IN CHICAGO.
Facts About Some of the successfui
Sons OF Caledonia I'm Chicago.
Hon. Corydon Beckwith

1873 attended the schools and acad-
emies Whereabouts aud was considered
one of the best of scholars and espe-
cially bright as a debater. Later he
pursued "A scientific and classical course
i'm Providence, Rhode Island, and at
Wrentham, Mass. In early life he
was fond of athletic sports, having a
strong physique which he developed
as we'll as his brilliant mind. He was
distinguished while in college as for
chile and logical debater and contro-
versialist. After graduating he studied
law in st. Adams, and after a three
years. course of rigid application to
the study of the rudiments, he was adj
United to the bar there and practiced
two years in Vermont and was decid-
eddy successful. In 1916 he was adj
mitted TO the Maryland bar and the
following year returned to st. Adams
and practiced until 1883, and held his
own as against the able lawyers there
i'm northern and central Vermont then
came to Chicago and has been engag-
ed i'm practice since, and has illustrate
ed the annals of the Jurisprudence OF
Illinois and the West to as great an
extent as any other lawyer. He was
chief justice of the supreme court OF
Illinois for time, but resigned and
re-engaged in practice. He has, for
several years, been the general sOlic-
itOr of the Chicago, Alton & st. Louis
railroad company, and is to this day.
He is one of the most brilliant legal
lights in the West and has added lus-
tire to the galaxy of able and brilliant
lawyers who originated in the state of
VermOnt-some remaining there and
giving out their light in the Vermont
and New England courts and others
have located here and elsewhere, but
wherever they are they carry with
them the Vermont impress and mark.
He is able and brilliant in all depart
ments of the profession, but his finest
faculties are his power of analysis and
prompt and energetic in the execution
of his plans has legal mind of Il
high order, original i'll methods, pow
erful in it's grasp, comprehensive and
thorough at the same time brilliant
combining qualities possessed by two
other eminent VermOnters, George F.
Edmunds and the late Matt. III. Car
penter, of whom he may be said to be
contemporaries. He is a man of pro-
found legal learning and wisdom and
is a formidable opponent. He has fig
ured in many of the celebrated cases
in the higher cOurts-cOrpOratiOn and
law cases-and be is quoted as author
ity. His pleadings before the highest
courts and his many brilliant efforts,
evidence his profound knowledge of
law, the accuracy of his Judgment, the
extent of his general scholarship and
learning, the force of his logic and the
grace of his dictiOn. He stands among
the few men whose personal and pub
lie history is inseparably connected
with Illinois in all ways. He is man
of the highest integrity and honor, and
is a worthy son of Caledonia county.
He married the oldest daughter of
Rev. DR.. WOrthington Smith, well
known i'm the state of Vermont. He
has married daughter and IA son who
graduated from Yale college. He is
man of generous impulses and the wife
and family are identified with chart
table and pbilanthrOpic work. They
live at 3l6 Superior street, north side.
Edward Adams Jeyvett
Is successful Vermonter in Chicago.
He was born at st. Johnsbury, July IL,
1888. His father, Ephraim Jewett,
was merchant and prominent man
there his grandfather was DR.. Luther
Jewett, first clergyman then ply
stefan; his mothers maiden name was
Jane Fairbanks, n daughter of Elk Gov.
Erastus Fairbanks and a sister of
Horace Fairbanks-a name which is Il
household word in the Green Noun
tain state, and familiar in this and 9TH
er countries i'm connection with the
Fairbanks scales and philanthrOpic
deeds. The parentage, then, of Ed.
A. Jewett, on both sides, was of prime
Vermont stock, the ancestors noted for
industry, sturdiness, intelligence and
integrity, and this scion, in his career
here in Chicago, perpetuates those
characteristics and that general char
acter of his ancestry. He attended the
schools in st. Johnsbury when young,
and graduated from Phillips academy,
that famed educational institution at
AndOver, Mass, in 1857, when he en-
tered Harvard university Cambridge
but was obliged to leave at the end of
his second year on account of impaired
health.
He then entered the employ of a
large wholesale boot and shoe house
in Boston, where he remained until
1861, when the house sent him to Bur-
lingtOn, to settle up the affairs of a
boot and shoe store there, which had
become largely indebted to his Boston
hOnse. He not only adjusted that
matter satisfactorily, but purchased
the Burlington business, and conduct
ed it four years thereafter then be
came connected with the construction
of a railway from SwantOn to st !
Johns, Quebec, which subsequently,